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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dennis" data-source="post: 52948" data-attributes="member: 1338">Hi JER,My reason for mentioning the conversion is simply because so many people don't realise that the HBA1C figure they are being quoted is not the same as their blood sugar reading.  We have had literally hundreds of instances of patients interpreting an HBA1C as a blood sugar reading showing adequate control, when in fact an HBA1C of 7% translates to an average mmol reading of 8.3, way above the point at which complications are likely to occur.So I can't agree that there is no value in people being aware of what sort of average in mmol terms their HBA1C is indicative of, even if is only an awareness of whether all is ok or something more needs to be done.</blockquote>

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